Director Shareholding

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC
01 June 2005


The Company was notified on 31 May 2005 by Halifax plc, the provider of the all
employee Share Incentive Plan ('SIP'), of the following purchases in the
Company's ordinary shares:-

 a. that 26,328 shares were purchased at £9.845 using participating employees'
    gross salary ('Partnership Shares').

 b. that the Company matched the Partnership Shares purchased by employees and
    purchased a further 1,765 shares at £9.845 ('Matching Shares') to add to the
    15,430 shares previously unallocated. The Company gives employees 1 Matching
    Share for each Partnership Share bought by them up to a maximum of 5
    Matching Shares per month.

The 43,523 Partnership and Matching Shares were allocated to employees at £9.925

The purchase was made pursuant to a regular standing order instruction with
Halifax plc for the monthly purchase of Partnership and Matching Shares

The interests of Executive directors of the Company in the transactions were as
follows:

Directors       Number of    Number    Percentage  Total holding   Total
                Partnership  of        of issued   following       percentage of
                Shares       Matching  class       notification    shares in
                             Shares                                issue
                                                                   following
                                                                   notification
Colin                  13         5    0.000002%         21,687           0.003%
Hood
Ian                    13         5    0.000002%         64,616           0.008%
Marchant
Alistair
Phillips-Davies        13         5    0.000002%         13,180           0.002%
Gregor
Alexander              13         5    0.000002%          9,315           0.001%


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